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My Apocalypse · Escape The Fate

EXERCISE 14 OF 60
Run S31 · Part S3 (bars 25-33)
132 / 213 BARS COVERED
0 / 60 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE PART S3
CHORUS
PART S3
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART Q
CHORUS 3
PART S9
PART V
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesCQVIS9+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 4
JOIN · 11
LINK · 4
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play My Apocalypse on drums

213 bars at 196 BPM -- fast, and 4:21 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

51 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
196 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
213
LENGTH
4:21
DIFFICULTY
51/100

silence through bars 1-7, snare through bars 8-25, silence through bars 26-30, toms through bars 31-32, hi-hat through bars 33-48 and snare through bars 49-74, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-15, 17-22 and 57-63, and 8 more places -- 33.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    9                10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-----x-|
BD |x-x-x-x---x-x-x-|--x-x-x---x-x---|
My Apocalypse -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 23, 24, 31, 32, 48, 56 and 15 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 47 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- C, V -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Bars 23-41 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 25-60 -- 9 exercises, about 35 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 73-80 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 80-117 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Bars 101-160 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 158-181 -- 9 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is My Apocalypse?

196 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is My Apocalypse hard to play on drums?

51 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

213 bars, about 4:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 11 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in My Apocalypse?

12 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 23, 24, 31, 32, 48, 56 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 213 BARS ANALYSED